GIVING THANKS FOR YOU

By STEVE KING
On Thanksgiving, a day set aside for us to take stock of our blessings and to be thankful for them, I’d like to express my thanks to you, the readers of Browns Daily Dose.
Simply put, without you, we would not be here. No business of any kind can survive without customers. We can have the best website in the world, but if no one visits it, it doesn’t matter. The site would go belly-up. But here we are, five years and nearly four months after our launch on Aug. 6, 2015, still cranking.
That’s because of you, and we can’t thank you enough for it. Your patronage — your support — means everything to us because it is everything to us. You’re the reason we’ve made it into our sixth Browns season.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving. It will be more challenging than ever to do so this year, because this is a holiday centered on gathering together and we can’t — or at least we shouldn’t — gather together.
But you’re Browns fans, so you’re tough, smart and persevering. You’ll figure it out and make the best of it.
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SO GREAT IN 1948: One of the most remarkable feats not just in Browns history but pro football history overall — it will never be equaled let alone surpassed, guaranteed — occurred during Thanksgiving week in 1948. It was 72 years ago that the Browns, in their third year of existence and in the All-America Football Conference, won three games in an eight-day span, on opposite coasts and against their three biggest rivals at the time. Yes, that’s right, they played — and won — three games over eight days. It helped launch them to a perfectly perfect season — a final record of 15-0 and their consecutive AAFC championship.
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AND FINALLY ….: Speaking of perfect and, as it were, imperfect and fading fast, the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers (10-0) try to take another step toward a perfect season when they host the fading-fast Baltimore Ravens (6-4) on Sunday in a battle of the two AFC North heavyweights. The Ravens are now in third place in the division, trailing the Browns (7-3) by a game. The Ravens were supposed to go to the Super Bowl last season after claiming home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs, but lost their first game. The year before, in 2018, they were supposed to do big things as well in the playoffs, but once again dropped their first game. And now this season, they are coming unglued as we enter the home stretch, losing games, losing confidence both for this season and going forward, and with the quarterback, Lamar Jacks0n, and the head coach, John Harbaugh, in a public spat. Other than that, everything is just peachy-keen. It will be interesting to see how things play out for the former Browns franchise. If the Ravens lose to Pittsburgh, which they probably will, to go to 6-5 and putting their playoff hopes in dire straits, then the wheels could come flying off. Gee, that would be too bad.